One of the very best things to come out of the mess of the Olympics is my buddy @adehogan’s perfect Everyday Olympics series of illustrations
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A saved link is not an endorsement. It's just a thing I read or thought about reading.
Lots of good advice on technology and managing change from @mulegirl. Starting with the simplest system that works for people: the conversation. Focusing on value and what’s in it for people. Building relationships. Telling stories.
In new Chromium 92, PWAs can register themselves as handlers of custom URL protocols/ schemes using their installation manifest, making them all the more appy.
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“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
Use This Equation to Determine, Diagnose, and Repair Trust:
This 2013 classic from @cwodtke is evergreen
Great article by @beep. It earned one ⭐️ in my RSS reader.
I have seen sentence, narrative, or fill-in-the-blank forms (not Mad Libs) making an unneeded comeback. If you must build one, I gathered WCAG considerations and made a sample to show usability pitfalls: These require a lot of human testing, so budget.
Over 25 states & federal agencies hired consulting firms McKinsey, BCG & Deloitte to manage the coronavirus vaccination effort. Many of those states have vaccinated fewer people than states that spend more on public health & that did not hire consultants.
Ain’t it the truth.
Hey friends! If you’re hiring, I’m looking for my next full-time gig. I’m a designer, CSS developer, and illustrator, with strengths in creative leadership and cross-discipline collaboration. Here’s a bit about what I’m looking for and what I’m good at:
I wrote about five of the most valuable superpowers that diagrams and diagramming hold (and reveal what the acronym at the center of my new book's title stands for)
New blog post: Creative and Strategic Leadership in Design Orgs—Super-Senior ICs and the Shadow Strategy Team (3rd in a series on Emerging Shape of Design Orgs)
Here's a deep one for the music nerds.
Deep focus on content— good content, and the way it is manifested is a surefire way to better your chances of succeeding in whatever market you serve.
How Tech Companies Manipulate the Media @Mrwhosetheboss ft @MKBHD // This is an _excellent_ video on how reviews work. Correction, how reviews have *always* worked, everywhere. It just isn’t a video about how companies “manipulate” reviews.
Notes are conversations across time. Seeing tools for thought through the cybernetic lens of Pask’s Conversation Theory. Featuring provocations from @startuployalist, @tobyshorin, and @wolkenmachine.
Thoughts collated here: In short: relying on open rates to assess how engaged mailing list recipients are might be a risky strategy.
“People keep framing burnout as an individual problem. If you’re really going to try and make a dent in the problem and get to a better place, you’re going to have to not just focus on the people and fix them, you have to focus on the job conditions.”
working on lessons for a workshop on content design and structured content specifications for a CMS. Came across this excellent guide to data types. Essential to a successful CMS implementation.
NEW REPORT: We are calling for an outright ban on the use of AI & automated systems in criminal justice to ‘predict’ criminal behaviour & profile people. Our report demonstrates why, detailing the damaging impact of these systems on people across Europe➡️
Dive into our latest collection to understand how to create accessible colors and seamlessly integrate them with your design system 👇
Hannover Messe Graphic System Cool color patterns for the branding of the biggest industrial fair in the world! Perfect execution of the abstract shapes and patterns. Have a look, but also read so you don't miss info about the whole concept.
“OKRs ONLY work for empowered teams, otherwise they are a travesty” as ever, wise words from @cwodtke
I am happy to let overlay vendors spend money eating each other, but I am not happy when they use my name or my work to do so. Last week I found #UserWay did just that, so I wrote a grumpy: #UserWay just removed the page. I leave you to speculate why.
@dburka @indexaward Geranium is outstanding.
Raised an issue to look at how we could make @Drupal issues less “in your face” about code until that’s what the issue is actually about:
Psst. Underline your links in body content. After all, underlines are beautiful. Because form ever follows function. It is weird to see people fight this so fervently.
The UK Gov accessibility team got a sense that revealing fields inline on forms based on user selections was causing some issues. So they tested it. And yup. Slides: Partly due to code, partly user expectations.
The UK Gov accessibility team got a sense that revealing fields inline on forms based on user selections was causing some issues. So they tested it. And yup. Slides: Partly due to code, partly user expectations.
the miracle of cables
Thinking about weird web3 energy. Digital feudalism, NFTs, Carlota Perez, and eldritch emergence.
Web users are task oriented; they aren’t thinking about who they are. In audience-based navigation, people must ask themselves who the site thinks they are and what type of content that type of person wants. All these questions increase users’ cognitive effort, and people haven’t even made it past the navigation yet. Users feel anxious that the information they see might be incomplete or incorrect. When users feel
It’s always nice to see when a company understands what employees want for benefits 👏 @PolarSignalsIO
"A new study adds up the external costs that ride-hailing trips generate and finds them to be higher than those taken in a private vehicle" (Remember how these services were initially 'sold'? Car-based solutions are no answer to problem of cars.)
This website has the best content design and marketing copy writing I have ever seen in so many ways.
@somefinetweets Fav resource so far is Preethi Kasireddy’s free email course: It starts with a foundational intro to the history of money and builds from there. No sensationalism, just good insights
Good piece by @TonyByrne at the @realstorygroup on the challenges Acquia faces turning a suite of acquired products into a coherent platform. It's a problem many vendors have, but it's relevant RE their @Widen acquisition.
Introducing Accessibility Whiteboarding with Stark for FigJam! ✏️ 🗒️ 💜 Check accessibility tasks off your lists to track cross-discipline progress, leave sticky notes to discuss action items, expand your knowledge on specific a11y topics & more.
This is a better image that all of those news stories that show empty shelves and just inspire more hoarding.
I started my own version of something like this. Pretty ruff for now but I have such grand ideas for this puppy.
I haven't even read this yet but I already started cheering at the title
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name: My money is on 'Meta' and .
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name: My money is on 'Meta' and .
If we're talking "human-centered design", the ROI of design only works if business interests and user interests are *already* aligned. How to align business success with ethical action is the conversation to have. (It often requires regulation.)
A reminder that management is not leadership. Tips for better IC relations: 1) Keep manager's meetings to manager's topics: operations, staffing, logistics, etc. 2) Create spaces for leadership conversations (i.e. vision) and invite relevant senior IC's.
You should sign up for Critical UX: My generation was taught that a career in UX would change the world for the better. It’s as if talking about users gives you some sort of ethical auto pilot. It’s a harmful lie that I repeated, and I’m sorry.
Unless you are working on content that is getting carved into a monument or put on a plaque being sent into space for future civilizations to find, you have my permission to relax.
Are we really going to have to say MAANG
Designers should be reading HBR. They've been doing a lot of useful stuff lately, and it's pretty well designed.